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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of Randy's landlord?

2. Whose passion did Randy want his children to follow?

3. What kind of courses did Randy teach in 1997?

4. Where was Randy when men walked on the moon?

5. Who was Tommy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Randy feel the way he did about his cancer diagnosis?

2. What caused Randy to believe so firmly in preparation?

3. How was Tommy able to achieve his goal?

4. What was unique about Randy's computer science class in 1997?

5. Why did Randy not worry to much about Jai after his death?

6. What message did Randy leave when he went on his honeymoon?

7. Why did Randy believe in peer evaluations?

8. What communication problems did some of Randy's students have?

9. How did Dennis pay Randy back for his favor?

10. What was the first head fake at the end of the lecture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was Randy raised, and what effect did this have on his life?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

What are Randy's greatest regrets in dying so young, and how is he coping with this?

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